About Me

In the name of Allah (God),
I have decided to dedicate sincere and honest endeavour in helping to establish the Truth by helping to defend the good name of the last Prophet (pbuh) of Allah as well as refuting many other lies and misconceptions that are being disseminated by the insincere, wicked, deceptive, intellectually and morally bankrupted individuals as well as the ignorant individuals who all share a faulty characteristic; a blatant disregard for the Truth.
I ask Allah to purify my intentions and save me from doing any good action for self-aggrandizement, as all actions are judged by intentions. May Allah Love me, and bless this work. My message to any non-Muslim reading this is thus:
Please give Islam a chance, research it for yourself and allow Muslims and Muslim sources to be your primary resources you refer to when studying Islam rather than basing your views on agenda-motivated Islamophobic sources.
O Allah, You are Al-Wadud (The Loving)...please O Allah love me and bless all those Muslims and non-Muslims who read this.
Ameen

Monday, 5 January 2015

Mecca's Descent into idolatry after Abraham and Ishmael

How Paganism Entered Mecca after Abraham and Ishmael

Abraham and Ishmael in Mecca

Every nation had a Prophet. Abraham and Ishmael were
Prophets for the Arabs prior to Prophet Muhammad. Abraham had sanctioned many
practices which remained till the time of Prophet Muhammad. Abraham instituted
the Hajj and related rituals.

Many Non-Muslim researchers say these practices were taken
from the pagans. The problem here is that these Non-Muslims do not look at where
these practices came from originally - they were originally Abrahamic
practices.

So where did the paganism come from?

Prophet Muhammad taught us that the first person to change
the religion of Ishmael was Amr ibn Luhai. Amr ibn
Luhai is thought to have lived around the first century CE. Amr ibn Luhai must
have lived at least 2000 years after the time of Abraham and roughly 500 years before
Prophet Muhammad's birth.

Amr ibn Luhai was not a lay
person. He was a chieftain who was one of the most respected chieftains.

He travelled to the Amalekites in Syria, who at
the time were worshipping idols. Amr bin Luhai took an idol named Hubal back to
Mecca - this was the first idol to be introduced
to Mecca. This
idol was placed in front of the Kaba and from this, people began proliferating
idols.

There were 360 different idols,
belonging to the pagans of Mecca, around the
Ka’bah when Prophet Muhammad took charge of Mecca. These idols were subsequently broken,
removed and burned under the authority of Prophet Muhammed

Did the entire society fall into
idolatory?

There was a small number of people
who were Hanif (Hunafa). These people were not pagans - they were monotheists. Amongst
these was Waraqa ibn Nawfal (cousin of Khadija)

May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad, Abraham and Ismail